Under 5's CAMHS Specialist

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust; Catford; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust in Lewisham CAMHS Horizon Team is recruiting a Band 7 CAMHS Practitioner for the Parent and Infant Relationship Service. You will conduct assessments and deliver specialist parent and child interventions for children and families with moderate to complex presentations.

You will work in partnership with Social Services and other services, contribute to audits and progress reports, manage your own caseload, and support clinical leadership with

Qualifications

• Assessments and interventions for children and young people referred to the service.
• Manage own caseload and provide specialist parent & child group interventions.
• Contribute to audit or progress reports on service developments.
• Support the clinical lead in allocating clinical work and caseload management.

Responsibilities

• Deliver assessments and evidence-based interventions within the Lewisham CAMHS service.
• Collaborate with partners (Social Services, Perinatal, Family Hubs) to support integrated practice.
• Maintain up-to-date clinical records and provide reports to networks.

Job description

Your main duties include working in partnership with Social Services, Parental mental Health/Perinatal, Adult Mental Health, Family Hubs, Child Health and key partner to support integrated practice and service delivery. Ensuring records are up to date clinical records and be required to complete and provide reports to networks.

You will also be required to contribute to audit or progress reports on specific aspects of the service developments. You will have some specific responsibilities to contribute to operational systems for referrals to the service, delivering appropriate treatments. To share day to day responsibility for the quality of delivery of clinical care in the service. To support the clinical lead in recommending the allocation of clinical work and operating an agreed system of caseload management.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Horizon Team at Lewisham CAMHS. We are seeking to recruit a Band 7 under 5's CAMHS Practitioner. We are the generic service, part of Lewisham CAMHS and provide specialist assessments and intervention for children and young people who are referred to our team.

The Post holder will contribute within the Lewisham Parent and Infant Relationship Service which is part of the Lewisham CAMHS Community Service. You will complete assessments and treatment in accordance with the clinical and evidence-based models that are delivered within the service. You will manage your own caseload and provide specialist parent & child group interventions to children and families with moderate to complex presentation., Lewisham Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) provides a diagnostic, assessment, treatment, advisory and consultative service for children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural disorders, including those at high risk or those with more severe and persistent problems. The service's Specialist Multidisciplinary Teams include: Horizon (generic); Neuro Developmental Team; Symbol (Looked After and Adopted CYP); LYPS (severe and enduring mental health problems); ARTS (at risk forensic); Paediatric Liaison Service; MHST (Mental Health in Schools); CWP (Child Wellbeing Practitioners); Intake; and Crisis. Lewisham CAMHS focuses on providing high quality mental health support to young people locally. We continually identify and address any potentially barriers or inequalities in regards to access to, and input from, our service, as well as continually improving areas of staff wellbeing and equality within the staff group.

This post is clinically based within the generic team (Horizon) and the leadership component extends to the rest of Lewisham CAMHS. Horizon is a dynamic multi-disciplinary team based in the Kaleidoscope Centre in Catford, an award-winning purpose-built building that brings together specialist community services for health, disability, mental health, education and social care.